Chapter 4

LONDON:RICHARD BARRETT, PRINTER,MARK LANE.

LONDON:RICHARD BARRETT, PRINTER,MARK LANE.

TOTHOMAS WAGHORN,Lieut.R.N.,WHO BY HIS OWNENERGY, AND INDEFATIGABLE EXERTIONS,SUCCEEDED IN ESTABLISHING THE PRACTICABILITYOF THEOVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA;SACRIFICING HIS TIME AND FORTUNE IN DIVESTING THE EGYPTIAN PORTIONOF THAT ROUTE OF ITS VARIED DISCOMFORTS; FACILITATING BYTHE AID OF STEAM THE PASSAGE OF THE MAHMOUDIEHAND THE NILE; AND RENDERING SAFE, ANDEVEN AGREEABLE, THE ONCEDREADED DESERT,THESE SKETCHES ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

TOTHOMAS WAGHORN,Lieut.R.N.,WHO BY HIS OWNENERGY, AND INDEFATIGABLE EXERTIONS,SUCCEEDED IN ESTABLISHING THE PRACTICABILITYOF THEOVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA;SACRIFICING HIS TIME AND FORTUNE IN DIVESTING THE EGYPTIAN PORTIONOF THAT ROUTE OF ITS VARIED DISCOMFORTS; FACILITATING BYTHE AID OF STEAM THE PASSAGE OF THE MAHMOUDIEHAND THE NILE; AND RENDERING SAFE, ANDEVEN AGREEABLE, THE ONCEDREADED DESERT,THESE SKETCHES ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.


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